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no_imagination: seems pretty quiet. is there a time when this board is usually more active?
TheNewDeal: I think that would be a way to turn shitty american beer into mediocre beer
asciilifeform: TheNewDeal: i always suspected you could turn american beer into something like proper beer with a 'rotovap'
kakobrekla: ;;rate eightyeight 1 solely for the purpose of #b-a voice
kakobrekla: he is authed, just doesnt have a rating
gribble: Error: "getrust" is not a valid command.
chetty: I suppose the wot is a kind of 'known connections'
xmj: ThickAsThieves: there's a certain kind of person who will tell you that it is, and it is about connections.
nubbins`: yeah, i replied w/ a time-sensitive invoice :)
nubbins`: "who' s the commisioner? Andreas A or mark kaperles? both would be great. if it can be autographed and laminated, i'll get one."
xmj: How much do I get away with, setting a retainer for sysadmin services?
BingoBoingo: Some hippy left me a comment, bread time http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/08/26/replies-to-select-comments/#comment-27294
pankkake: Perhaps using a name that looks "real" would work
pankkake: I use my real name for "professional" stuff because it's the custom, but I'd rather use a pseudonym there too
BingoBoingo: But if I go quiet too long a number of people here know my slave name.
RagnarDanneskjol: need a change of latitude sounds like
BingoBoingo: The clinically crazy being part of the "smart" or the "elite", I'm also fortunate to have a very seasonal sort of bipolar in that summers I get a mania that is always unfamiliar and winters I get a very familiar depression. Both conditions and the space in between are Incredibly livable.
BingoBoingo: RagnarDanneskjol: It isn't a unique thing
RagnarDanneskjol: I'm a little surprised to learn carry such inclinations based on your writings. seems you have a fairly healthy/jovial outlook on life to me
RagnarDanneskjol: nailgun has to be a tough way to go. geez
BingoBoingo: So for my personal safety, a list of things I do not own and have no access to: Nailguns, duffelbags my size, a distinct lack of hope that would make me want to exit the world of the living
BingoBoingo: RagnarDanneskjol: If nothing else, what does this say about the average worth of humanity if a booze loving person with Bipolar I can be featured as a voice through Van-ads?
assbot: A Law Enforcement Encounter: If you ran a Bitcoin related service before the thing hit $100 you prolly ought to be somewhat concerned and/or prepared | Bingo Blog
BingoBoingo: DoctorBTC_ DoctorBTC: We've traded before so http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2014/08/25/a-law-enforcement-encounter-if-you-ran-a-bitcoin-related-service-before-the-thing-hit-100-you-prolly-ought-to-be-somewhat-concerned-andor-prepared/
RagnarDanneskjol: ok, will soon, think I'll need further help with the bot thing too, so need to do a few more test messages anyway
BingoBoingo: It was friendly FBI agency and pissed off Treasury agent sore he had to waste his time on a pauper
RagnarDanneskjol: sounds like they'd make for a good buddy cop movie
BingoBoingo: It's dark but true. The pesticide he tried was basically a concentrated nicotine and being old enough to have smoke a lot... he went to the hospital nauseous after trying to crash his truck.
BingoBoingo: Well, my estimation on the elderly is more empiricle though. It's been a while since grampa tried to drink a bottle of pesticide.
BingoBoingo: My brother has a corgi mix named Frank. Frank is adorable. Frank would not make a good guard dog. Frank is great at giving elderly relatives hope though.
BingoBoingo: Because you dunno when a pug is just going to stop breathing
BingoBoingo: I was a TA at a pharmacy school for 2 years. Pretty sure anticonvulsants are they way to go, but they vary so much from person to person.
RagnarDanneskjol: you have a dog?
BingoBoingo is currently medicated with copious ETOH several times a week. It isn't no lamotrigine (which was beautiful in its effectiveness without cognitive effects, and I'm pretty sure my dick was bigger while I was on it)
BingoBoingo: Know any corporations that need Librarians? Preferably with health benefits because I haven't seen a psychiatrist since I got my Library science degree 25 months ago?
RagnarDanneskjol: any. i have been a corporate recruiter for 15 years
BingoBoingo: Have a court date for that Thursday. Thing's been going on for over a year now. Allegedly I did a thing that was totally not a crime even if I did it because it was speech that supposed no transfer of value.
RagnarDanneskjol: I'm at your service to help you locate a job fit for a renegade. its what I do
RagnarDanneskjol: think you need a passpuerto first
BingoBoingo: Thanks, Well... 4 years of college and 4 years of gradschool followed by a distinct lack of employment and bitcoin related adventures spoiled by premature cashouts has a reward
RagnarDanneskjol: lol, nice one. I assumed you were a lot older than that
assbot: Amazing Room For Rent in BA Class A equipment
asciilifeform: 'assassin state' is a pretty good strategy. castle of alamut stood for ~200 years.
asciilifeform: how does a tiny country with no useful minerals rape the planet? this is how. piss the buggers off - no wall is tall enough
JimDowJones: ya seriously what a slut
TheNewDeal: so hard to get voice in the channel; it's a barrier
beetcoin: thanks for +v mircea_popescu, I'll mainly lurk for a while after it expires, I'm interested in this channel
asciilifeform: might, for a spell. and then sell it to some weirdo who might, for lulz, eat it on camera
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: lol re: the notion of 'controlling' a hypothetical 'superintelligent' machine. <<< i've controlled superintelligent womenz, they luv'd it. why'd the ai necessarily not enjoy it ?
beetcoin: someone made this for me: http://a.pomf.se/xwjqzk.png
TheNewDeal: pound? that's not a thousand. I'm talking a kilo
assbot: The peep of day : or, a series of the earliest religious instruction the infant mind is capable of receiving, with verses illustrative of the subjects : Mortimer, Favell Lee, 1802-1878 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
beetcoin: a pound of beets
beetcoin: i will give the answer for just a few beetshekels
TheNewDeal: can I buy a farming contract?
asciilifeform: 'and when we had nothing remaining to eat, they gave us a turnip, they gave us a beet. 'here have some mice, have some fleas! here, have some typhus! die of disease.''
mircea_popescu: forget abject whiners a la eli weasel & co.
asciilifeform: i suppose one might even then include a 'd)', 'sow crank bait'
mircea_popescu: well of course. SEE what a well kept secret it is ?
asciilifeform: this presumes that either - no roman will turn coat, and explain to a german - or - no german born can understand were it told to him
mircea_popescu: they can even send ovid to live in the pontus, what'll that do. start a rome there, with the savages ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform there actually is a c).
asciilifeform: or how many droplets of water is a flood.
ben_vulpes: else a continent?
asciilifeform: a few teratons - you have a potentially-habitable planetoid
asciilifeform: if you have a gram - you have dusty fingers
asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: closer to 'what is the value of a gram of soil'
ben_vulpes: back to this "what is the value of a bitcoin" thing again
mircea_popescu: if every time someone opened a steakhouse everyone had to go have steak there it'd be a sad world/
asciilifeform recently visited a restaurant he frequented as student, and noticed appearance of placemats with (very spammy) ads.
mircea_popescu: generally the girls that've not yet been buggered tend to attach a lot more importance to it than the normal ones.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform i just took some arbitrary numbers. you can make it 10 bitcents a day, in which case it costs 0.1
mircea_popescu: turns out this process is a lot more fundamental to bitcoin than originally thought. your exact argument can be brought by person at the brink of the wot, "i'll get in the wot if you guarantee me good deals" he may say.
asciilifeform: a bitcent a day << more than i'm willing to spend on lotto
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: how do you suppose most people would react to 'taking it slowly' for that one? << what are weddng rings if not a system for slow-cooking tattoos ?
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: this whole thing's been a really eye opening exercise in pricing < :D
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: there was mention of user-tweakable minimum bids at one point ? <<< open up for bids, bid 1 btc/day on your own thing, this way you're charged a bitcent a day and in exchange you get a guarantee that nobody willing to pay less than 1 btc per half your impressions shows up.
assbot: Image:Complete a Cryptogram Step 1.jpg - wikiHow
TheNewDeal: reminds me of solving a http://www.wikihow.com/Image:Complete-a-Cryptogram-Step-1.jpg
mircea_popescu: it's perfectl;y transliterable tho, which means the font is just a mask.
mircea_popescu: TheNewDeal: russian would be a good language to learn. Some of the best authors wrote in russian << it's actually not nearly as hard as it seems.
mircea_popescu: ben_vulpes: did he ever get it? << yeah yeah. it's not THAT intuitive a system
TheNewDeal: gotta find me a cryptozoologist position
asciilifeform: if you (org.) want to keep secrets, the menu is roughly: a) employ incorruptible fanatics b) keep all henchmen incommunicado, in 'шарашка' prisons c) there is no 'c.' tertium non datur. ☟︎☟︎
asciilifeform: 'A security officer informed him that the orange he left on his desk was, in fact, a classified object. He learned that any spherical object became a nuclear secret once it passes over the line...'
assbot: A Proper Barrel Fire: A secure way to dispose of data storage | Bingo Blog
BingoBoingo: http://www.thedrinkingrecord.com/2013/10/14/a-proper-barrel-fire-a-secure-way-to-dispose-of-data-storage/
asciilifeform: this is a recent thing, or there'd be no surplus 'symbolics' hardware at all.
asciilifeform: the only actual good thing about the alpha was that the spec fit in a thin paperback book.
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform: But the later ones have this dilema where they are advertised for quite a bit or scrapped
asciilifeform: BingoBoingo: a well-worn alpha is dirt cheap. i threw away five of them a few years ago.
decimation: asciilifeform: well it is certainly true that 'brainfuck' is not a habitable bedrock
asciilifeform: (none is much bigger than a deck of cards.)
BingoBoingo wonders if asciilifeform is a sufficient masochist to try building Loper on the back of his MIPS or if MIPS workstation will be an intermediate product...
asciilifeform: also a favourite cuisine in russian prisons.
decimation: it goes on to say that apparently Leibniz researched a method for producing a hard biscut for feeding soldiers on the march
asciilifeform: a proper 'leibniz cake' would probably be topped with 'panzerschokolade'.
asciilifeform recalls actually having a fresh post that month, to be fair
assbot: A sad story, illustrated pe Trilema - Un blog de Mircea Popescu.
BingoBoingo: http://trilema.com/2014/a-sad-story-illustrated/